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Re: [ARSCLIST] Haydn Society (was Early stereo mass market tapes)
Hi Steve,
Perhaps you could tell us something about the ownership and operation of
HS if you were privy to that - I think it would be quite interesting.
What is the current status of Haydn Society? Some of their releases
actually made it to CD a decade or two ago, but have seen nothing
since.
Thanks.
Best wishes, Thomas.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Smolian" <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Early stereo mass market tapes
One early duplicator was Julie Koenigs at Dubbings. I visited there with
a friend who used to run Haydn Society. They were somewhere on Long
Island. This would have been 1963. I don't know how many years earlier he
was in business. I saw my first Philips casette there.
They issued a test LP as well.
Steve Smolian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:25 AM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Early stereo mass market tapes
Hi All:
I'm trying to find out some history of the early stereo hifi era,
specifically the handful of companies that sprang up to make and market
stereo tapes. This would be circa 1955-56, when the first commercial
mass-duped 2-tracks were out. What was the business model for a company
like Livingston or Bel Canto? Were they basically run like boutique
record labels or differently? Aside from those two and Stereotapes, who
else was making original recordings as opposed to licensing and releasing
stuff from major labels or European sources?
Also, we talked about Emory Cook and I believe there's someone on-list
here who actually worked with Cook. Did he jump into stereo tapes or
stick with his two-cartridge grooved disks?
Finally, does anyone have any sales estimates on the first generation of
tapes? I know they were priced a bit higher than mono LP records and the
playback decks were expensive by mid-50s standards, so it was a niche
market. But, reel to reel tape obviously caught on enough that by the
quarter-track era (1958 or so onward), there was enough demand to allow
for a lot of catalog variety and many duping operations around the
country. By the late 60's, I think it was down to Bel Canto, Ampex Tapes
and a handful of smaller dupers but I might be wrong on that.
OK, thanks in advance for any facts anyone can share.
-- Tom Fine
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